Posted on 11/15/2017 10:25:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Communes sound romantic...for a while.
Such was not always true in America.
The following is an excerpt from the "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" (1886) (celebrating America's 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence) by a Black Ohio Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett on "The Greatness of America" - Note that this Sermon is delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War by this outstanding scholar/legislator/Bishop.
"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" - Library of Congress - African-American SectionIf current generations of youth in America go to the LOC web site and read this lengthy Address by a remarkable Black scholar of history, Ohio State Legislator, and A.M.E. Bishop, who had lived through the years surrounding the Civil War, then their perspective might be enhanced, enlarged and encouraged by their pride in such an intellectual giant from America's history.
Most of the little brainwashed snots love totalitarianism, and they’d have no problem renouncing religion for “perks.”
Bkmrk.
I genuinely appreciate the author’s first-hand warning, but right now, it’s of little use. You see, all the cool kids are Bernie Bros, and equate Communism, and it’ little brother, Socialism, as being all about compassion, equality, and free stuff.
Recently I was at someone’s house and a some WalMart like sitcom was on and one of the characters was espousing the grand virtues of socialism. I was stunned.
For reasons I cannot fathom, the Left always romanticizes Socialism despite 100% of historical examples showing otherwise. It is why people like Sean Penn was Hugo Chavez’s best buddy and biggest supporter, and yet now that Socialism has run its fully expected course in Venezuela, Sean Penn is no where to be found. And that is always how it is.
American Millenials have only know plenty and have suckled at the teat of the corrupt MSM all their lives. They now fully believe that if it weren’t for those Fascist Conservative barbarians they would all be able to live in a Socialist paradise with free tuition, free food, a guaranteed minimum salary, and all the pot they could smoke.
Things will not get better until they themselves experience the abject hardship Socialism always brings. It is what they want. It is what they demand. Until they get it they will clamor for it because Socialism and Communism is a lie from the pit of Hell — and they demand it!
Except for the party elites. Millenials (and all liberals) believe they will be in that group.
We’re actually pretty far along the “denounce your religion or you won’t get promoted” path.
I wish I could simply pound the ignorant in the millennial group in the head with this until it sinks in, because for those ignorant ones...that is the only way it will ever find its way in.
Bump - that’s good stuff.
Yeah, but they’re gonna get it right this time. Fidiots.
What I always hear from young people is “They didn’t do it the right way. With technology, we can do it the right way...”
What they don’t realize is that perfectly good software (their idealized communist/socialist implementation) running on fatally flawed hardware (Communism/Socialism) is only going to work as well as the hardware it runs on.
Meaning...not.
I think it’s ultimately the idealism and innocence(ignorance?) of youth that allows them to see communism or socialism on paper and think it’s wonderful. No knowledge of how it plays out in real life. A few bad players rise to the top, recruit more bad players, then Shazam! Slave to the machine.
I remember being shown an open air market in Western Siberia in the mid 1980s, as proof of economic freedom and choice.
There were rows of covered stalls, almost all of them empty and grubby. A few had the bins covered with dingy plastic sheet. Two of the stalls had products. In one, there were some wax paper wrapped blocks of what was supposed to be shortening. The blocks were translucent gray, with sooty streaks of some kind of contaminant in them. There were about three dozen of these blocks, with no interest being shown. The other stall had about two dozen flabby, abused heads of cabbage. A couple of babushkas were picking through them, with scant enthusiasm. That was it.
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They just imagine themselves as privileged members of the commissariat, rather than the reeducation camp fodder they would become in very short order. Except for welfare recipients, they would have the worst odds of surviving in such a system.
The author clearly doesn’t understand that today’s millenials are the smartest people on the planet. They can do it better. As long as they get to have their Smartphones, Mac’s, the latest Northface jacket for those cool morning walks to Starbucks and their craft beer, all is good. Because all of those things are handed out, to the masses in communist countries.
I know it's fashionable to consider Millenials a bunch of Obamabots. However, I don't think it's elderly National Review readers who are buying all of Milo's books.
This is based on a POLL..yea, the same social science that predicted Hillary being president. Indeed, Deplorable parents are undoubtedly advising Deplorable millenials to hang up when a telemarketer calls, or walk away from dopes with clipboards, thus causing an underweighting in polls.
Finally, remember that by most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started.
I thnk we are seeing history repeat itself. The left/Loyalists are painting the Patriots/Deplorables as intransigent dolts who must be brought to their knees and Kiss the Ring, for their own good. In turn, the Patriots/Deplorables are not going quietly into the night, using new media to outsmart the Establishment and bring otherwise neutral parties to the side of truth and freedom.
In turn, the kids of Deplorables likely are as much "underground" as are their parents in polls, etc. Where they ARE visible is on memes and the like....have you ever seen how many pro-Trump meme pics there are vs anti-Trump? I doubt that's coming from a bunch of geezers.
Thus, I wouldn't so easily assume the millenials are all commies.
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